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title: Introduction
description: "Introduction to ReScript & ReactJS"
canonical: "/docs/react/introduction"
section: "Overview"
order: 1
---

# ReScript & React

ReScript offers first class bindings for [ReactJS](https://react.dev) and is designed and built by people using ReScript and React in large mission critical React codebases. The bindings are compatible with modern React versions (>= v18.0).

The ReScript philosophy is to compile as closely to idiomatic JS code as possible; in the case of ReactJS, we made no exception, so it's not only easy to transfer all the React knowledge to the ReScript platform, but also straightforward to integrate with existing ReactJS codebases and libraries.

All our documented examples can be compiled in our [ReScript Playground](/try) as well.

## Feature Overview

- No Babel plugins required (JSX is part of the language!)
- Comes with all essential React APIs for building production ready apps (`useState`, `useReducer`, `useEffect`, `useRef`,...)
- No component class API (all ReScript & React codebases are built on function components & hooks)
- Strong level of type safety and type inference for component props and state values
- [GenType](../manual/typescript-integration.mdx) support for importing / exporting React components in TypeScript codebases

> **This documentation assumes basic knowledge about ReactJS.**
>
> Please note that even though we will cover many basic React concepts, it might still be necessary to have a look at the official [ReactJS](https://react.dev) resources, especially if you are a complete beginner with React.

## Development

- In case you are having any issues or if you want to help us out improving our bindings, check out our [rescript-react GitHub repository](https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-react).
- For doc related issues, please go to the [rescript-lang.org repo](https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript-lang.org).
